Abstract Anyone who has endured work as a low-level cog in a corporate machine should appreciate the acute frustrations of the eager young beavers who rebel against the system in Mike Judge's moderately savvy satire ''Office Space.'' The comedy, the first live-action feature directed by the creator of ''Beavis and Butt-head'' and ''King of the Hill,'' distills the pettiness of office life in its sneakily savage portrait of a quintessential middle-management boss named Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family. The extent of that family's misery is amusingly revealed at Bill's office birthday party, at which the employees stand around scowling grimly as he cuts the cake and dispenses a cheer so patently false it has a sadistic edge. The corporation in question is a high-tech outfit named Initech whose role in the world of information is never specified. The eager beavers who mount a personal insurrection are three computer programmers: Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) and his cubicle neighbors Samir (Ajay Naidu) and the unfortunately named Michael Bolton (David Herman). Needless to say, the pop singer whose name the character shares is the butt of much snide humor. The rebellion begins when Peter's yuppie girlfriend, a control freak and therapy nut, drags him to a hypnotist to ''work'' on their relationship. Just at the moment Peter has been eased into a trance and told not to worry about anything, the therapist drops dead of a heart attack. Permanently suspended in a state of happy nonchalance, Peter is figuratively re-born as a carefree guy miraculously relieved of all anxieties regarding work, money and love. He takes days off whenever he feels like it and shows up at the office at odd hours, sometimes overturning office furniture just for the fun of it. Interviewed by a pair of consultants brought in to downsize the company, he impresses them by gleefully confessing his own uselessness instead of desperately trying to justify his job. His candid sarcasm, of course, convinces them that he is definitely upper-management material. But Peter has no interest in corporate advancement. With his two cyberwise office mates, he concocts a nickel-and-dime computer scheme to embezzle small sums of money from Initech that over time should reap them a fortune without the losses ever being detected. He also fearlessly pursues a pretty young waitress named Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) whose boss is the fast-food restaurant equivalent of Bill Lumbergh. ''Office Space'' is an expansion of three animated shorts created by Mr. Judge for television over the last decade, and it has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum. Its conspiratorial eager beavers are so undeveloped that they could hardly even be called types. You don't care for a second what happens to them. By far the richest characters are the genially evil Bill and a stammering, paranoid, anal-retentive nebbish named Milton (Stephen Root) who is tongue-tied in front of authority. We've all met someone like Milton. He is the sort of eccentrically geeky petty grievance collector who in his heart would declare war to keep possession of a purloined stapler but is too intimidated to express himself. An obsessive-compulsive maniac, Milton is...

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